A Springer Nature book chapter features AI-generated gibberish and plagiarized figures
A Book That Will Never Be Read
Michał Wójcik, a former neuroscientist who now hunts AI-generated and plagiarized papers, examines a Springer Nature book on nanocomposites for wastewater treatment. The first chapter contains AI-generated gibberish, while later chapters reuse figures from other publications without credit. Wójcik argues that the publisher-papermill complex, fueled by public funding, allows such low-quality work to enter the scientific record.
I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding.